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Royalties are usage-based payments from one party (a licensee) to another (the licensor). Licensing fees are paid as part of an agreement that defines the terms under which a tangible property is licensed for use by one party (a licensor) to another (the licensee).
A patent is the granting of a property right by a sovereign authority to an inventor. This grant provides the inventor exclusive rights to the patented process, design, or invention for a designated period in exchange for a comprehensive disclosure of the invention.
A patent license agreement typically grants a licensee exclusive rights to manufacture, sell, and use a patented invention, subjected to certain terms. A patent license agreement will also define the amount of royalties the licensee owes the licensor.
The royalties typically are a percentage of the gross sales of the products using your patent. Although each situation must be evaluated separately, royalties from patent licenses are usually 3 to 6 percent of gross sales. However, some patent license royalties are set by law.
A holder of a patent can license his patent in exchange for royalties by executing a licensing agreement between himself and the third party for an agreed-upon royalty. The agreement would allow a third party to use or sell the patented invention for a limited period of time.
An example of a licensing agreement is a contract between the copyright holders of software and another company, allowing the latter to use the computer software for their daily business operations.
Locate Manufacturers. Identify potential licensees. Sign a Confidentiality Agreement. Ask potential licensees to sign a confidentiality agreement to protect rights to your intellectual property. Negotiate Patent License. Complete a Patent License Agreement.
A patent license agreement is a contract and, naturally, the proper construction of a patent license agreement is generally a matter of state law. However, certain principles of federal law respecting patents create exceptions to the rules of construction that would normally obtain.
When it comes to setting patent licensing royalty rates, there's no room for guesswork you need to calculate fair royalties based on income, costs or comparable market rates. Royalty rates can be anything from 0.1% to 25%, and they can differ from product to product and industry to industry.